Braking device

US6186286A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG · DE

Inventors

• Harald Haussler · Friolzheim, DE
• Helmut Pietsch · Ditzingen, DE
• Roland Martin · Hamburg, DE
• Carsten-Jorg Mertens · Aidlingen, DE
• Artur Grunwald · Nümbrecht, DE
• Thomas Klaas · Geislingen, DE
• Michael Pehle · Leverkusen, DE
• Reinhold Pittius · Wiehl, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 16, 1998
• Grant date: Feb 13, 2001
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F16D2125/70
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A braking device for wheels of vehicles such as trailers includes a caliper in which brake linings are guided. Between these linings, at least one brake disk is displaceably held on driving toothing of a wheel hub. A pneumatically operable mechanical adjusting device interacts with the brake linings. The braking device includes at least one brake disk in a caliper which is fixed. On one end, the caliper is connected by a fastening element with an axle element of the vehicle. On the caliper, an enclosing housing for bearing the adjusting device is held. By way of a bearing plate, the adjusting device is also supported on the caliper. Pressure pistons of the device are guided by a one-part yoke in a jointly axially adjustable manner and can be acted upon by pressure with respect to the brake linings and the brake disks.